Comedian Will Ferrell is going from portraying George W. Bush to the Gipper himself, Ronald Reagan.
According to Variety, Ferrell is attached to the Black List script “Reagan,” which would have the “Anchorman” star playing a version of America’s 40th president as he falls into dementia.
The story will follow “an ambitious intern [who] is tasked with convincing the commander in chief that he is an actor playing the president in a movie,” per Variety.
The script for “Reagan” was so popular when it popped up on Hollywood’s Black List of unproduced scripts that it garnered a March live read starring Lena Dunham and John Cho.
When it comes to political comedy, Ferrell is most famous for portraying Bush on “Saturday Night Live” and in a one-man Broadway show called “You’re Welcome America.”
He also portrayed a North Carolina congressman in the political fight of his life in 2012’s “The Campaign” opposite Zach Galifianakis.
